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For him it was the dream of the
culmination of a lifetime.

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His name was Joseph Strauss his title
chief engineer Golden Gate bridge

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and highway this Joseph Strauss is the
man who led a core of creative engineers

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and a legion of rugged men in designing

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and building the Golden Gate Bridge few

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people remembered today.

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But for fifteen years before the steel
was formed for the Golden Gate Bridge.

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It was regarded by many as the bridge

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that could not be built in one thousand a
teen the city engineer of San Francisco

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approached Joseph Strauss then a consulting
engineer with a long list of bridge

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contracts to his credit.

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The city engineer asked if a bridge could
be built across the Golden Gate at a

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reasonable cost. After
three years of study.

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Strauss replied that it could for
twenty seven million dollars.

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This was in one thousand

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and twenty one such a bridge
was an obvious need San

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Francisco Bay formed a fifty mile long
barrier to highway traffic in the San

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Francisco area

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and the entrance from the scene known as
the Golden Gate separated the growing city

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on the south from the lightly populated

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and excellent recreation
areas of maroon County.

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I love bridge was an obvious need
it was not an obvious possibility.

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The challenge was not to bridge
a river or a valley but an arm.

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Of the ocean the proposed
bridge was this one.

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Impressive in its simplicity modern in its
concept the center spans from tower to

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tower would be forty
two hundred feet long.

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The longest ever attempted in

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that time the sidebands would each be
eleven hundred twenty five feet long.

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The roadway would be some two hundred fifty
feet above the choppy waters of the bay

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but it was how matters stood in one
thousand nine hundred one eleven years of

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stormy controversy followed by
opponents raised many objections.

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Some said the bridge couldn't possibly be
built other critics said the bridge would

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cost an exorbitant some almost one
hundred million dollars and to a city

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that remembered a disastrous earthquake.

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It was an ominous note the bridge would
be only a few miles from the San Andreas

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fault.

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The battle was fought vigorously in the
courts and in the newspaper columns

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but the dreamers and the builders won out.

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Construction began officially on January
fifth one nine hundred thirty three.

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The film you're about to see is old

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but these flickering scenes still portray
the story of building this great bridge.

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In the fabricating shops of the Bethlehem
Steel Company of Pottstown and studios

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and Pennsylvania the fabrication work
began a major contractor will build the

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studio towers

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and suspended span of the bridge huge

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sections formed and temporarily
assembled at the shops are disassembled

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and shipped by way over to
the Philadelphia docks.

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It takes miles of railroad cars to
carry the studio for the towers

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and suspended staff.

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At Philadelphia the sections
are loaded aboard ships

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and Buffalo homes Calmar line for the
long trip to San Francisco by way of the

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Panama Canal

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and finally the Golden Gate
into San Francisco Bay the

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steelworks is unloaded at Bethlehem's
facilities at Alameda across the bay from San

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Francisco.

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Here are the sections of the bridge are
stored to be shipped out to the construction

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site in sequence
fabricating the steel work

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and transporting it to Alameda will expand
over a period of almost four years this

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scene was taken during the
election of the roadway.

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Leaders members only a fraction of the
nearly seventy thousand Tons of studio

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but Beslan fabricated for the break

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at the Golden Gate from struction begins
with a more empty which is built on

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bedrock on the North Shore the work being
floated by a sheet piling copper down

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on the last of the concrete
has been poured on the north

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or its surface is ground to a
true play so this is to ensure

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that the steel superstructure
will start through

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and from the surface is made plain

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that within less than one
thirty second oven in the

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towers which will be erected on each
pier identical seven hundred two feet of

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studio rising to an elevation of seven
hundred forty six feet above sea level.

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Two legs joined together by six cross
braces the legs are ninety feet apart

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and center clearance between the legs at
tech level is sixty feet the width of the

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six lane roadway.

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When the bridge is completed

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and there will be no other structure
of the story between San Francisco

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and New York City.

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First step

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and erecting the North Tower is the
assembly of the erection traveler with the

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climb upwards between
the legs of the tower.

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Building as it goes on the traveller direction
already a five inch thick steel base

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plates are placed five
for size measurement

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but still sections arrive on a carefully
planned schedule at this time.

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Bethlehem was fabricated steel construction
division is known as Democratic

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Marshall Corp

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moving the studio from storage at Alameda
to the bridge site is a sizable effort

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and logistics

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but distance is five miles across the
open water of the bay with obstacles to

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navigation when the tide storm

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and the famous San Francisco fire the
delayed is an erection whatever bad

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weather prevents deliveries a small storage
area is preferred. If a tower site.

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The old enough materials
for several days work.

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The lowermost sections of the tower are
anchored to vertical steel angles which

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have their roots fifty three
feet below the surface of the.

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Please Anglos are pretty stressed before
reverting to the tower leg so they will

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exert downward pull on the tower.

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A safeguard against the stresses of wind

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and earthquake as the year.

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Nineteen thirty three on four was the Marine
tower climbs toward the roadway level

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even the lesser early stage there
appears the beauty of line

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that will make the Golden Gate
Bridge famous as the erection

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traveler raises itself on
the lower tower sections.

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It's spider like shape stands out against
the water each of its two electric

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powered steps like barracks.

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Is rated at eighty five tons about the
weight of the heaviest tower sections the

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booms are ninety feet long.

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Once the traveler clears the pier by a
sufficient margin the workman begin erection

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of the first diagonal place.

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And so the technique of building the
tower proves its workability as

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the tower progresses upward the traveller
erects the tower legs then raises itself

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and builds the braces behind each time the
traveller is waste its weight must first

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be shifted to the cat
head placed atop the tile

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or laid down before
plunges which support the

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traveller I was drawn from
reinforced slots on the tower like

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the traveller moving upwards in about
ten minutes gains another forty feet of

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headway on the tower

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one.

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Redhot river drumming up special delivery
to men working by the light of miners labs

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inside the tower the Riveters work
on double platforms gobbling driving

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simultaneously on several levels

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six hundred thousand field whether this
will be needed to complete each of the

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towers one writer will later describe
the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge as

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rivers of paradise

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and so the work continues.

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I don't you form rises against the sky in
the beautiful bay area of form which fits

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well in a land of massive
hills and spans of water

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but which stores the men who
are building it in time.

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The only practical way up and down this
open the skyscraper is by elevator

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and it's a sensational ride the

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road

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the financing thirty four the legs of
the North Tower are some five hundred

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feet above the water
about fifty stories high

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from bottom to top the style of principle
of construction remains the same lights

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of studio riveted to Anglos
forming a beehive of cells

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this construction principle creates a maze
of passages which men will occasionally

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become lost for short periods but
it is a principle which has.

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Explain the amends strength of the
two towers as the year nine hundred

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thirty four unfolds silhouette rises above
the Golden Gate the horizontal Cross

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trucks above the roadway level will help
the taller legs act as a unit in resisting

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the lateral forces to the top of each

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tower leg.

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There is a massive table such blast at
Bethlehem Pennsylvania each saddle is a

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three piece steel casting they are mounted
on rollers to allow movement during

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erection of the span later they will
be fixed in position placing the cable

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Savile's in November nineteenth thirty four
essentially completes the North Tower.

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However long before the first star reaches
completion let men across the bay begin

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building the second concrete the area
for the South Bend Francisco tower

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was sent Francisco pier

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and founder wall were built eleven hundred
twenty five feet offshore in one hundred

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feet of rushing tide water silencing the
critics regarded this is the Achilles heel

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of the bridge

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but the work didn't go without
incident by steamer groping in the fog

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and demolished four hundred feet of the
trust old which led from the shore to the

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pier site but Russia was rebuilt.

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Later a storm took out eight hundred feet
of it at such times the people who said

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the bridge couldn't be built
sounded as if they might be right

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but I knew trestle went up and the
work continued. All things considered.

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This tier

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and Finder wall represent one of the most
difficult underwater construction feats

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ever attempted the pier was successfully
completed in January of one hundred thirty

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five. It took.

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About a year

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and a half on January tenth one
hundred thirty five percent

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Francisco tower is big on the traveller
Dell is lowered from the north tower.

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It's reassembled on the second tier

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and begins another climb skyward I

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was good tower progresses upward Calmar
line the ships continue their deliveries of

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fabricated steel work to Alameda.

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The pattern of electing the San
Francisco tower is the same as

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that used in building the Morin tower

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the San Francisco tower is completed by
late June one hundred four days ahead of

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schedule.

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On Nov eleventh nineteen thirty five.

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But the task of spinning the two great
cables is begun from an omelet the Golden

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Gate is steadily braided wire by
wire the workman of the cable

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contractor States the north

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and south shores together with eighty
thousand miles of wire which wire

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measures just under one fifth of an inch
in diameter slightly smaller than a lead

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pencil spinning carriages shuttle from
Anchorage to mid-span playing out as many as

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six wires on each trip

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in the room the cables

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when completed will weigh twenty
two thousand tons apiece.

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It's interesting to note but
each cable ways of production.

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Oddly as much as each tower the wires
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seventy two of them for
cable build up to a compact

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and cable slightly over three feet
in diameter later as the roadway

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takes shape the cables will
be run with galvanized wire

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and painted to protect
them against the elements

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the spending of the cables is completed in
May of one thousand nine hundred thirty

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six.

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That's one home builder of the towers
begins erecting this expanded stand on June

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eighteenth.

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The engineering problems in erecting the
roadway were challenging the main span was

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the longest ever attempted forty two
hundred feet from tower to tower with side

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spans of the eleven hundred twenty five
feet as every engineer knows there was the

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delicate problem of making sure

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that the two sections of roadway moving
out from each tower would meet at the

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center within exacting tolerances.

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The entire span would be constructed from
elementary structural form the stiffening

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saucepan knows what consist of
top and bottom cords diagonals

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and vertical verticals are spaced
at twenty five foot intervals

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suspender strands occur
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but truss measures twenty eight feet deep.

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The roadway floor beams are eight and
a half feet eighty seven feet long

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and weigh on the average
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Generally speaking the floor beams occur
at each of vertical in the stiffening

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trusses.

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Broadway's stringers atop the floor beams
carry the sixty fourth roadway the braces

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tie in the floor beams

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and bottom cords the summer
of one hundred thirty

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six days the first three panels erected by
candle evolving each way from the tower

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Chicago booms at the roadway level handle
the steel for those where one of the

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unique features of Job is the emphasis
placed on safety as the roadway moves

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outward from each tower.

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I'm in no rope safety measures introduced
assembled first at water level but net

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and

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that flame are lifted to
position beneath the spot as

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erection proceeds additional sections of

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that will be perception always in
advance of the workman eventually but

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that will extend the entire
length of the bridge also but

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that reaches some ten feet beyond
the width of the span on each side

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as election proceeds the first three
panels of roadway are playing to over the

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steel workers delivered from Alameda to the
base of the towers laying hoisted into

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this plank.

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Over area of layer the steel members move out
on a buggy to the point of construction.

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After the first three panels are planned
over the balance of the stand erect

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and is handled by a traveller deli for the
erection of the trusses two twenty five

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foot panels are totally void
forward assembled piece by piece.

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The first vertical is joined to the
projecting bottom corner the the.

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The same thing

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but diagonals are then erected
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The

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and through the

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you lose.

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And so the stand progresses moving out
trust by trusts in four directions to

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maintain equal loading on
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But each set of two trust panels is connected
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swung into place by Hughes will be
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and some of the roadway stringers the

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Ood Luuk the

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or when that proves to be a
success. It saves nineteen lives.

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There are many special provisions for
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For example for protection against head
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and whenever they can work with limited
movement the menu's safety belts with tie

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off line

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lose by

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fall of one hundred thirty six residents
of San Francisco are treated to the sight

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of a span which moves steadily closer to
the day when the two halves will meet.

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The partial loading of cables on
towers gives the span an I'm not.

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For all curvature. It looks as though
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That's for him

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and the cable contractor work together
to control the cable curvature

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and subtle movement

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to move the election games on the main span
within hailing distance the safety nets

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me.

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Finally I Nov eighteenth nineteen thirty
six the closing numbers are lowered into

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place the Golden Gate is break

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for tea time Junior Joseph Strauss

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and for every engineer who
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This is a day of realization
that type of day.

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What fulfills the life of an engineer
first as a dream as a magnificent

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accomplishment.

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But the job is far from over.

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Haters applies a final coat a special
colorful third for this bridge international

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orange by name

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the for the bug is bringing out
fabricated sections for the

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sidewalks

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and Wally will use items on the balance
of the roadway stringers I wrecked it as

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the traveler directs work
their way back to the towers.

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But what happens to your
role in building the.

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Ridge is coming to an end with a
roll but involve the fabrication

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and erection of close to seventy
thousand tons of steel work on the docks

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and other structural tools are removing
the paving contractor and stalls

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and Wells the reinforcing
studio of the concrete roadway

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this web of studio replacement
classic close to the strings.

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Or are

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God makes one of its regular visits as
the finishing touches are added to the

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bridge creating a strange kind of beauty

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and so the work is completed the bridge

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that pessimist said could
not be built has been built

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May twenty eighth. Nineteen
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Or are

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all the newspaper accounts vary on the
amount of celebrating done by San Francisco.

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Some say four days. Some say a week it
was a celebration worthy of the bridge.

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The fact

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that man who never saw a blueprint for
global revotes were so deeply proud of the

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accomplishment proved.

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But all men are builders at heart
conquerors of the impossible

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but some men the engineers learn

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and cherish the privilege of doing the
dreaming look plenty good building.

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It was such men who do signed

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and built the Golden Gate bridge loan.